Question

Explain any three ways in which nationalist feelings were kept alive in Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries.​

Answer 1

Answer: The nationalist feelings were kept alive in Poland in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in the following ways:

1)They used music to keep their unity and identity. Karol Kurpinski, kept up the national struggle by staging his polish operas and music.

2)The Polish people used dances like polonaise and mazurka making them into nationalist symbols.

3)The use of Polish came to be seen as a symbol of struggle against Russian dominance. In 1831, there was a Polish armed rebellion against Russian rule but the rebellion was crushed.